Roey AngelMar 6, 2024
🚨New pre-print from my lab in @biorxivpreprint together with @julipeale:
"#Cellulose #fermentation by the #gut #microbiota is likely not essential for the nutrition of #millipedes"
https://www.biorxiv.org/node/3692730.external-links.html @BiologyCentre @CzechAcademy
Show threadRoey AngelMar 6, 2024
We continue our work with millipedes. Here, we wanted to see how dependent millipedes are on their gut microbiome. Do they fully depend on it like termites, or is it expendable, like in caterpillars?
Show threadRoey AngelMar 6, 2024
Antibiotics nearly eliminated their microbiota but had no effect on their weight.
Show threadRoey AngelMar 6, 2024
Also suppressing CH4 production did not affect them much, and their gut methanogens survived and revived after impression was eliminated.
Show threadRoey AngelMar 6, 2024
Stable isotope probing showed us very slow labelling of the gut bacteria and somewhat faster for fungi
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Similar to our previous paper, the result point out to the fact that millipedes rely on fungal and bacterial biomass rather than on fermentation products
Mar 6, 2024 at 6:06pmWeb